Word: alienating
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...Alien arrivals...
...Alien departures...
...clearly the corollary statement illumines the whole. The growth of Harvard to meet the demands of a country interested in education could easily mean sacrifice of standards, of that atmosphere of scholarly calm and intellectual poise, so often alien to the popular mechanics of education. Harvard has developed height as well as breadth. With more exacting requirements than ever in her history, the College of Arts and Sciences, real and necessary center of an American university, has this startling record of undergraduate fidelity to intellectual interests...
...hunkies in a copper mill. His is a hard-muscled method of thought. He refuses to betray himself by betraying humanity in order to remain loyal to an artificial class distinction. The, to many persons, pleasantly remote life of working people interests him like a bride. Feeling this alien devotion, the girl he loves says, "I don't love you because you've never allowed...
...Hoch! Hoch! Hoch!" roared the crowd, while only the royal colors of Bavaria (white & light blue) streamed in the breeze. Impressionable, warmhearted, those jolly South-Germans were on a veritable spree of local patriotism. Prussia, land of shaven polls and square jaws, seemed alien and dis-tant-the Enemy, with its feverish industrialism and its cold, northern Berlin. They were Bavarians, and before them stood their "Rightful King." Was he not even a Hero-King? Certainly he had been a Feldmarschall during the War, and commanded troops which struck fast and far into enemy territory. Suddenly, in a bright emotional...